From 528c56f3770a7ac29fe05ab41a0acbbb0fa5a182 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Borgwing Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:07:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: surface acknowledgments on the README home page Move the OpenAI/Work Louder/contributors thank-you out of a link-only reference and onto the rendered home page as its own section, so it is visible without clicking through to ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md. --- README.md | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 09c36d7..98f3645 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -129,7 +129,15 @@ Adapter PRs are explicitly welcome — that is the point of the project. Start w Microbridge is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Work Louder or OpenAI. Driving the Micro's LEDs outside official software relies on best-effort reverse engineering of the device's HID protocol and may lag firmware updates. -This project is only possible because OpenAI chose to keep the Micro open — an open protocol, a non-exclusive HID interface, and open tooling. That is a real choice, and we're grateful for it: see [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md](ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md). +## Acknowledgments + +Microbridge only exists because the Codex Micro is *open* — and that was a choice, not an accident. + +OpenAI is a for-profit company, and it would have been easy to lock the Micro to a single first-party app: a closed protocol, an exclusive USB claim, no way for anyone else to light a key. They did the opposite — they ship the device kit in the open, keep the HID interface **non-exclusive** so third-party software can coexist with the official experience instead of fighting it, and keep giving users a choice (Codex CLI is open source; the models are reachable over documented APIs). None of that was required of them. **Thank you.** + +Thanks too to **Work Louder** for designing a genuinely hackable macropad, and to **everyone who writes an adapter, files an issue, or plugs in a device and tells us what really happens** — adapters are the point of this project. + +Full notes: [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md](ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.md). ## License